Hello all,
I am curious about something. Is anyone out there running INN successfully
on a FreeBSD/Intel box? I'm running one of the snapshots from June 1999,
and my system is unable to keep up with a full newsfeed at today's levels.
Here's a quick rundown of my setup:
Hardware is PIII-800 single processor with 512M of RAM. It has 12 drives,
36 and 50 gigs, not raided. Storage method is cycbuff, with the overview
being written in the 2 files/group format (Sorry, I don't remember the name
for this, but it's the one that creates the .IDX and .DAT files for each
group). The max I've been able to get this system to accept is about 130
gigs a day. All drives are LVD seagate barracudas.
In contrast, I have another backbone-only system that is almost identical in
configuration. It only has 3 drives, and the overview is disabled. It's
been able to keep up with up to 190 gigs/day of traffic.
I'm thinking that the problem lies, at least partially, with the overview.
Here is a copy of today's INND timer stats:
INND timer:
Code region Time Pct Invoked Min(ms) Avg(ms) Max(ms)
article cancel 00:04:34.396 0.3% 13048 0.000 21.030 1139.500
article control 00:04:20.164 0.3% 12329 0.000 21.102 1139.500
article link 00:00:00.000 0.0% 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
article write 02:33:20.893 10.6% 633277 10.517 14.529 29.979
history grep 00:01:08.666 0.1% 5622 0.000 12.214 2237.000
history lookup 00:47:54.646 3.3% 1287560 0.828 2.233 11.398
history sync 00:01:36.554 0.1% 64707 0.000 1.492 89.109
history write 03:23:54.500 14.2% 645394 10.504 18.957 88.326
idle 09:32:57.995 39.8% 26859391 0.147 1.280 5.352
overview write 04:27:15.395 18.6% 633277 11.000 25.321 132.913
perl filter 00:00:02.316 0.0% 636204 0.000 0.004 0.047
site send 00:00:00.005 0.0% 92 0.000 0.054 1.000
TOTAL: 24:00:03.923 20:57:05.530 87.3% - - -
My biggest question is whether or not anyone is successfully running INN
with a full incoming news feed (at least 170 gigs/day) on a setup similar
to mine. Or am I missing some huge problem here.
Thanks.
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Brennon Church
System Administrator
CTSnet Internet Services
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